Synopsis:
Giving a tech talk can seem daunting. Come get some tips and tricks from folks who have done it before.

This presentation will be a panel discussion about how to give a technical presentation. Panelists Brian Gerard, Daniel Farrell, Jason Hibbets, Sandi Metz, and Chris Collins will join us to talk about how they prepare to give a presentation, what to do and avoid during a presentation, how they handle questions from the crowd, and other aspects of presenting.

Bios:

Brian Gerard has been working with various *nixes, and Linux specifically, since the mid-'90s, as a Systems Administrator, a Software Engineer, and an end user. After eight years developing abuse defenses for Yahoo! and training their engineers, he now uses his expertise doing deployment automation and security work for WebAssign.

Daniel Farrell is a Software Engineer on Red Hat’s SDN Team, where he contributes to upstream OpenDaylight and OPNFV. He has been involved in SDN’s development since it emerged from Stanford, including early OpenFlow and OpenStack work. He’s now an active committer on OpenDaylight’s Integration Team.

Jason Hibbets is a senior community evangelist in Corporate Marketing at Red Hat where he is a community manager for Opensource.com. He has been with Red Hat since 2003 and is the author of The foundation for an open source city. Prior roles include senior marketing specialist, project manager, Red Hat Knowledgebase maintainer, and support engineer.

Sandi Metz, author of "Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby", believes in simple code and straightforward explanations. She prefers working software, practical solutions and lengthy bicycle trips (not necessarily in that order) and consults and teaches and speaks on all
things OOP.

Chris Collins began working for Duke in 2006, and became a systems administrator with the Duke Office of Information Technology's Linux team in 2008. As a technical lead and tech enthusiast, he teaches introductory and intermediate courses and workshops to a wide variety of audiences around campus, and regularly gives presentations highlighting new projects and technologies.

Synopsis:
Jeremy will provide an overview of how the Performance Engineering group at Red Hat approaches performance analysis, show specific examples of testing methods that produced interesting results, and show how they are able to performance-tune infrastructure in the field using tools like tuned.

You will leave with a new appreciation for how many knobs and levers are available in the Linux kernel, and understanding how a practical approach to performance tuning can have a big impact on every-day deployments.

Bio:
Jeremy Eder is a Principal Software Engineer and Network Performance Lead at Red Hat Inc, where he specializes in measurement and analysis of kernel-related performance metrics, and using that analysis to guide performance-tuning of real-world infrastructure.

Synopsis:
I spend a large fraction of my time editing text, and am always on the lookout for things that will make the experience more enjoyable. In this talk, we will take a tour of the vim editor from how to use it and straight forward configuration options to arbitrary programming and scripting. While investigating these features, we will look at then through the lens of how they change your daily editing lives. There are, of course, other editors, and we will take a lightning tour of the other options.

Bio:
Jack is a GNU/Linux administrator at Duke University. His is also a member of the Steering Committee, and is passionate about Free software, storage, and Haskell. When not thinking about computers, he cares about Catholicism, trains, and ultimate (frisbee).

You are invited to the Triangle Linux Users Group's annual Holiday Social & Demo Party ! Come and socialize with other like minded Free and Open Source enthusiasts from all over the Raleigh Durham Chapel Hill area.

The party will be held in Red Hat's 8th Floor Training Room. People should gather in the Red Hat Lobby on the ground floor where they will be escorted up to the 8th floor. Free Parking is available in the Red Hat Building as long as you enter after 7pm. This parking lot has designated Accessible Parking spaces and elevators down to the main lobby. On street parking is free after 6pm.

Please RSVP using the above form so we can pre-authorize building security. This will also enable us to budget food and space. Food will be catered from Neomonde, as well as side dishes and treats contributed by our members.

We do not have permission to have alcohol at the Red Hat building, so please don't bring any.

Demos
Share your passion by bringing a project or product to show off. As we get more demos we'll try to keep the list up to date! If you want some inspiration, have a look at the demos from previous years: 2013, 2012. If you would like to setup your demo early, please meet in the ground floor lobby at 6pm.

Refer back to this page to see the list of demos as they come in.

Linux Performance Monitoring Tools - William Cohen
Will show some example uses of SystemTap, OProfile, perf, and Performance Co-Pilot to better understand system performance.

Raleigh Makerspace - Rebecca Cooley
A few sample projects made at the Raleigh Makerspace (they're not very high tech) but they were made on the laser cutter or ShopBot.

My Everyday Stuff! - Dwain Sims
I will show a couple of FOSS tools on Linux that I use everyday; gpodder and SimpleScan + a great cloud service - Dropbox. This is pretty mundane stuff, but it may give you some ideas.

WebcamStudio - Bill Farrow
Live video mixing, streaming, and recording. We use this software to record TriLUG presentations. The demo will show how to use multiple cameras, layering, transparency, and live streaming to Skype or Hangouts using the v4l2 loopback device driver. Developers wanted.

OpenWRT - Bill Farrow
A live demo of OpenWRT running on a TP-Link TL-WR1043ND router, and a short demonstration of the build system that goes with it.

Chit Channel - Wes Garrison
"Thermal printer that works over the 3G wireless network that allows sending ""chits"" for fulfillment, sending confirmation of receipt to a server via 3G, and notification of completion to a server. We're using it to send food order tickets to our restaurants, get confirmation that they received the order, and get notification when the food is ready without human intervention. I'd like to know if anyone has other ideas for its application outside of food (ie. this would be perfect for ordering unobtanium candle holders!)"

Information:

Gathering:

Topic: The State of Open Source BookkeepingPresenter: Eric LearyWhen: Thursday, 13th November 2014, 7pm (pizza from 6.45pm)Where: NC State Engineering Building I Room 1007, Centennial CampusParking: The parking decks and Oval Drive street parking are free after 5pmMap:Google MapsSponsor:Apex SystemsVideo:YouTube

Synopsis:
The domain of financial record keeping could greatly benefit from new open source projects that provide accounting software solutions for the small to medium enterprise. The current offerings don't fulfill contemporary requirements, are often buggy and moribund in the maintenance of the code base, or are intractable to implement without extensive commitment from third party developers.

Quickbooks Online and Xero accounting will be held up as representative targets from the commercial world that the open source community should pursue with competitive products and frameworks. The talk will delve into GnuCash and other open source offerings, showing their strengths and weaknesses in today's world.

Bio:
Eric is not an accountant, he is a bookkeeper. He has been using Quickbooks for over 17 years in a wide range of industries, but he is drawn to Python and Open Source for some strange reason. I think he would prefer to give it all up and go back to theater set design, but such is life.

Sponsor:
Apex Systems, an On Assignment company (NYSE: ASGN), provides organizations with scalable IT staffing solutions to address critical gaps in their current workforce and augment workforce management strategies. We specialize in providing IT professionals for contract, contract-to-hire, direct placement, and managed solutions to clients in Fortune 500, mid-market, and emerging companies. Our specialized technology and industry practice groups help us match the most talented and qualified technical professionals to great companies across the country. Apex was named to Inavero’s Best of StaffingTM Client lists in 2012 and 2013.

Apex and On Assignment combine to be the 2nd largest IT staffing and services firm in the U.S.